Quote by Adam Hochschild

“he believed with all his heart that Leopold’s system of rule constituted a unique form of evil. People in England’s ruling circles, therefore, could…

— Adam Hochschild

“The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever since the…

— Tim Butcher

“Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily.…

— Michela Wrong

“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . . The adversaries…

— Anonymous

“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”

— Adam Hochschild

“Thousands of refugees who had fled across the Congo River to escape Leopold’s regime eventually fled back to escape the French. The”

— Adam Hochschild

“  ‘WHERE ARE WE GOING?’ Leopold asked after many hours,”

— Michael Foster

“When, in February 1885, at the Berlin Conference that not a single Congolese attended, the fourteen participating powers, headed by Great Britain, the United…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Churchill was a big fat cannibal, Leopold was an ugly deadly virus, Columbus was a most wanted terrorist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“What if I can't save Congo, but I try anyway? Would it be better to do nothing? Did he abolitionists really think they could…

— Lisa Shannon

“Dignified refusal can only take you so far. Ask the Congolese.”

— Teju Cole

“He [Stanley] had stated that he longed to do something wonderful for the African tribes along the Congo, and instead, as would become all…

— Tim Jeal